History VideoGame / StarOcean1

* TheAtoner: Erys

* BlackMagicianGirl: Mavelle is an odd case in that while her attacks work like spells, they're treated like the fighters' special skills. Erys plays it a bit more straight.

* LaserBlade: The Force Swords, a double {{shout out}} to ''StarWars''.

* {{Tsundere}} - Millie from ''First Departure'' is a type-B example: usually sweet and bubbly, but has a short temper when it comes to Roddick.

* ActionGirl: Ilia, Phia

* PeninsulaOfPowerLeveling: The abandoned mine in Mt. Metorx, but only for a short while. The first time you can access it any enemy will kill you in one hit. When you are able to handle the enemies there, though, it's only a short time until you move on to more lucrative ones in terms of experience.

* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Joshua

* SecretCharacter: You probably [[GuideDangIt need a guide]] in order to get Welch, T'nique, Pericci, and Erys.
** To be fair, you ''might'' be able to run into Welch by yourself as she is the easiest of the characters to recruit.[[hottip:*: T'Nique requires you to have six characters in your party by a certain point, then for no discernable reason, run back to an early town. Pericci requires you to do something ''very'' early in the game and then backtrack to find her. Erys meanwhile requires you to recruit a specific set of characters, one of which has ''no relation to her whatsoever''.]]

** Hell, [[spoiler:Jie Revorse himself might count. For well over three fourths of the game, Asmodeus is clearly built up to be the BigBad, but once he's defeated, the plot basically goes "Oh yeah, by the way, there's this evil alien warlord whose never been mentioned until now in the present trying to conquer the galaxy. Go stop him."]]

* GuideDangIt: The average player may waltz right through the game and miss many characters simply because they choose to accept others. The real title goes to [[spoiler: Erys]] however - an addition to the PSP remake, who requires ''three other characters recruited''. While two of them make sense ([[ItMakesSenseInContext if you know what their stories are]]), the third is [[LostForever easily missable]] and has ''no connection'' to these two.

The first game in the ''StarOcean'' series, ''Star Ocean'' was originally released for the Super Famicom; that version was [[NoExportForYou never ported to the West]], though {{Fan Translation}}s exist. SquareEnix [[VideoGameRemake remade]] this game for the [=PSP=]; this remake, subtitled ''First Departure'', was released in the US and UK in October 2008. It tells the tale of a young boy named Ratix Farrence from the planet Roak (most of whose inhabitants have tails and [[UnusualEars pointed ears]], though there are other races) whose world is under threat from a horrible disease that makes those who catch it [[TakenForGranite turn to stone.]] Seems like standard fantasy fare, until Captain Ronyx J. Kenny and his Number One Ilia Silvestri from the Terran Alliance beam down to the planet to investigate. The stone disease is much more than what it seems, not just for Roak but other planets as well....

* [[CatGirl Cat People]]: Fellpool, Lesser Fellpool, and Highlanders; more so with the Lesser Fellpool with their cat ears and ability to shapeshift into a cat, while the former look like pointy-eared tailed humanoids. Highlanders are based on big cats (tigers in particular) rather than the usual housecats. (Note that in ''StarOceanTheSecondStory'', regular Fellpool, at least the ones on Expel, are portrayed as cat people, with the party member Leon in that game being a [[SpearCounterpart cat boy]] in everything but name.)

* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: It seems odd before playing ''StarOceanTheLastHope'' that Ilia is surprisingly knowledgeable about the local beverages given that she's ''300 years in the past on an undeveloped planet'', but that game shows that people from Earth knew about Roak at least several years before Asmodeus's defeat and that Earth's humans (including the party in that game) have set foot on it, so she probably just paid an unusual amount of attention to the history of Roak's cuisine in school.

The first game in the ''StarOcean'' series, ''Star Ocean'' was originally released for the Super Famicom; that version was [[NoExportForYou never ported to the West]], though {{Fan Translation}}s exist. SquareEnix [[VideoGameRemake remade]] this game for the [=PSP=]; this remake, subtitled ''First Departure'', was released in the US and UK in October 2008. It tells the tale of a young boy named Roddick Farrence from the planet Roak (most of whose inhabitants have tails and [[UnusualEars pointed ears]], though there are other races) whose world is under threat from a horrible disease that makes those who catch it [[TakenForGranite turn to stone.]] Seems like standard fantasy fare, until Captain Ronyx J. Kenny and his Number One Ilia Silvestri from the Terran Alliance beam down to the planet to investigate. The stone disease is much more than what it seems, not just for Roak but other planets as well....

* ObviousBeta (The original SNES game is a good game......when it not crashing from all the bugs that are so numerous it's ridiculous)
** What's even more insane is that the FanTranslation didn't even address this.
** To say nothing about the fact that a bit less than half the game [[DummiedOut was and still is missing.]] (It ''was'' released ''very'' late in the Super Famicom's lifespan; after all. The Playstation and Nintendo 64 were just around the corner! And to make things worse, this was the only game besides VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia to use the absolute maximum memory available on the SuperFamicom carts.)
** A lot of the bugs attributed to this game are not found in the cartridge (or accurate emulation), they are a result of abominably bad emulation on most mainstream emulators. When played on a console the game rarely if ever crashes (not to mention the combat is normal paced instead of 2x speed as on emulators).

* BottleFairy: It seems odd before playing ''StarOceanTheLastHope'' that Ilia is surprisingly knowledgeable about the local beverages given that she's ''300 years in the past on an undeveloped planet'', but that game shows that people from Earth knew about Roak at least several years before Asmodeus's defeat and that Earth's humans (including the party in that game) have set foot on it, so she probably just paid an unusual amount of attention to the history of Roak's cuisine in school.

* [[CatGirl Cat People]]: Fellpool and Lesser Fellpool; more so with the latter with their cat ears and ability to shapeshift into a cat, while the former look like pointy-eared tailed humanoids. (Note that in ''StarOceanTheSecondStory'', regular Fellpool, at least the ones on Expel, are portrayed as cat people, with the party member Leon in that game being a [[SpearCounterpart cat boy]] in everything but name.)

* FiringOneHanded: Ashlay, not that he has any other choice since he lost an arm.

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The first game in the ''StarOcean'' series, ''Star Ocean'' was originally released for the Super Famicom; that version was [[NoExportForYou never ported to the West]], though {{Fan Translation}}s exist. SquareEnix has recently [[VideoGameRemake remade]] this game for the [=PSP=]; this remake, subtitled ''First Departure'', was released in the US and UK in October 2008. It tells the tale of a young boy named Roddick Farrence from the planet Roak (most of whose inhabitants have tails and [[UnusualEars pointed ears]], though there are other races) whose world is under threat from a horrible disease that makes those who catch it [[TakenForGranite turn to stone.]] Seems like standard fantasy fare, until Captain Ronyx J. Kenny and his Number One Ilia Silvestri from the Terran Alliance beam down to the planet to investigate. The stone disease is much more than what it seems, not just for Roak but other planets as well....

* BottleFairy: It seems odd before playing ''StarOceanTheLastHope'' that Ilia is surprisingly knowledgeable about the local beverages given that she's ''300 years in the past on an undeveloped planet'', but that game shows that people from Earth knew about Roak at least several years before Asmodeus's and that Earth's humans (including the party in that game) have set foot on it, so she probably just paid an unusual amount of attention to the history of Roak's cuisine in school.

* CatGirl: Fellpool and Lesser Fellpool; more so with the latter with their cat ears and ability to shapeshift into a cat, while the former look like pointy-eared tailed humanoids. (Note that in ''StarOceanTheSecondStory'', regular Fellpool, at least the ones on Expel, are portrayed as cat people, with the party member Leon in that game looking like a cat boy.)

* CatGirl: Fellpool and Lesser Fellpool.

* BottleFairy: Ilia is surprisingly knowledgeable about the local beverages given that she's ''300 years in the past on an undeveloped planet''.

** Though Fellpool blood, like [[StarTrek Vulcan]] copper-based blood, is actually green anyway.

* GuideDangIt: The average player may waltz right through the game and miss many characters simply because they choose to accept others. The real title goes to [[spoiler: Erys]] however - an addition to the PSP remake, who requires ''three other characters recruited'', [[LostForever one of whom is very easy to miss]], and has ''no'' connection to her whatsoever.

* HoYay: In one PA, Ronyx is a little too interested in what Roddick's tail would feel like to touch, and it freaks poor Roddick out so much that he runs straight to the other side of the bridge they're on!
** And another PA involving a ''freakishly'' effective love potion getting spilled on poor Roddick.

* LaserBlade: The Force Swords, a double {{shout out}} to StarWars.

* StaffChick: Millie Chliette for abilities, but her personality is more of a {{Tsundere}}.

* BlackMagicianGirl: Mavelle is an odd case in that while her attacks work like spells, they're treated like the fighters' special skills. Erys plays it a bit more straight while still doubling as a fully functional StaffChick.

* GeniusBruiser: Ilia Silvestri managed to become a maritial arts master while simultaneously getting her PHD by the age of 23.

** To say nothing about the fact that a bit less than half the game [[DummiedOut was and still is missing.]] (It ''was'' released ''very'' late in the Super Famicom's lifespan; after all. The Playstation and Nintendo 64 were just around the corner! And to make things worse, this was the only game besides TalesOfPhantasia to use the absolute maximum memory available on the SuperFamicom carts.)